Integrity matters most when you are challenged to walk the talk. Go further always, most of all when it’s difficult. The best apples are always the ones still on the tree, no matter how nice the ones on the ground appear to be. Business of Home bit.ly/3ZW3lph

If you want to reset your relationship, provide clarity, brevity and intention as to how the relationship will continue from here to the finish line. Business of Home bit.ly/4eUyLRB

So enjoyed my time talking creativity with Shannon. All art deserves its voice. Hope you will have a listen. Shannon Griffin podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/red…

The aim is to make sure that interior designers are increasingly seen as forthright advisors first and foremost. You get paid to spend your clients’ money far better than they ever could. Business of Home bit.ly/4fAyPG6

It is beyond time for designers to stop using commissions as a crutch, or worse, a place to hide. Business of Home bit.ly/4fW6Hxm

A break is not a time-out; it is fueling what comes next. If your ultimate vision is to be better tomorrow than you are today, then defining the value of the break to clients, employees and colleagues is its own reward. Business of Home bit.ly/3D9eDNB

You are in the effectiveness business: Your firm maximizes the client’s enjoyment of the investment. Certainty, confidence and thoughtfulness are the hallmarks of effectiveness. Business of Home bit.ly/49EFZHL

Integrating the spirit of what might be into the fabric of your business (without abandoning all that is solid) will bring you a new awareness of what you most hope to become, both as a designer and as a business. This is where faith lives.bit.ly/4hygzyr Business of Home

You do better by going first. You are the storyteller you choose to be. Let your frustration remind you that to be a great storyteller you actually own the path, the tension and the resolution over and over again until it is done. Business of Home bit.ly/4gdom3j

All of this leads me to the most important lesson all designers must know: Risk matters. If you do not identify it and create consequences for what will happen if the risk manifests, you and your firm will pay for it, and dearly. Business of Home bit.ly/42SAeol

Efficiency can be wonderful, but never remarkable. The real question is whether you will allow yourself and your design business to own the value of effectiveness in human connection and be paid for it. The choice is yours. Business of Home bit.ly/4i9r1fK

Margin analysis matters if you want to stand on the ground you choose instead of where someone else tells you to. bit.ly/3DmT7Wt Business of Home

I am not naive. There are incredibly rough waters ahead; ones I absolutely did not see coming —at least not to this extent. Let’s not add to the pain by fighting for something that will just keep you stuck. Business of Home bit.ly/4j9wVPe

One last thought: Beware the shiny penny and unicorns. There is no magic solution that will save the day here. Chaos is chaos, and there’s no truthful way to present it as anything other. Business of Home bit.ly/4iwme8f

Or you can keep asking for money like Oliver asking for more gruel, and we all know how that worked out. When you know better, do better. Business of Home bit.ly/44uyFhu

The sofa never was just a sofa, but man oh man, is it not today. It is all about what the sofa represents to your client, why it matters to them to own it, and your willingness and sacrifice to both imagine it and bring it to life. Business of Home bit.ly/4mpJ4Bm

Simply, your time away is to everyone’s benefit, and you need to build it into the fabric of your design business without apology or compromise. Business of Home bit.ly/457iyXl

The truth of the matter is that digging deeper holes by focusing on the three-legged stool will offer other opportunities far more than just digging more holes ever will. Clarity reaps its own rewards. bit.ly/3TgZnU1 Business of Home

Really excited to be part of Bold Journey. boldjourney.com/meet-sean-low/

Here is the thing—your truth is your truth, and to paraphrase Shakira: Your subconscious don’t lie. If you give yourself permission to go there, then you will find yourself as both an artist and a businessperson. Business of Home bit.ly/4kmLrTb